In The 100, pre-teen Charlotte (the youngest of the young convicts sent to Earth), guilt-ridden over having killed Wells in a misguided attempt to quiet her inner demons and unwilling to be the cause of any more bloodletting, averts Infant Immortality big time by jumping off a cliff to her death.

In The 4400 Isabelle tries to kill herself by jumping off the 4400 Center (a very, very tall building) because her rapid aging is killing her mother. Unfortunately, she discovers that she's practically immortal, so this doesn't work. Lily then talks her out of trying again.

In a subversion, a few episodes later, a man discovers Isabelle floating face-down in a lake. After he saves her, she tells Shawn that she wasn't trying to kill herself. She just wanted to learn to swim!

Accused: In "Frankie's Story" Frankie's friend Peter is bullied ruthlessly by the other soldiers, led by their corporal, after he cracks under fire. This leads to him shooting himself. In "Tina's Story" Stephen Cartwright reappears when he enters a juvenile prison to start his time. After only a short time, he hangs himself. This spurs the episode's plot, as Tina blames another guard who didn't move him to a cell with another prisoner where he could be watched as she asked.

Kate overdoses on pills after her career ends. Angel is able to miraculously revive her.

Nina's so depressed over having become a werewolf that she's fully prepared to let Jacob Crane and his clients eat her at a fancy dinner. After Angel saves her, she grows out of it.

Bates Motel (1987) has the titular motel's first guest intend to kill herself, because she's been divorced three times and has no kids. She gets talked out of it by some teenagers who show up at the hotel, and turn out to be the spirits of teenagers who've all committed suicide years before, and are now thoroughly regretting their decision.

Boomer begins having suicidal thoughts when she begins to suspect that she's a Cylon, and Baltar - who knows for a fact that she is - pushes her over the edge, causing her to shoot herself. She ends up jerking the gun away and letting the bullet pass through her cheek, leading her to wonder later whether her programming prevented her from killing herself until after her mission was accomplished, or if she was just a lousy shot.

In later seasons, this also happens. Dualla shoots herself after returning from the nuked Earth.

D'Anna Biers is Driven to Suicide for a different reason: after her first death, she becomes obsessed with the "place between life and death" and begins to kill herself... over and over in hopes of glimpsing into something she isn't supposed to know. She gets an actual one after the Fleet comes across the nuked remains of Earth. She chooses to stay behind and presumably dies. Since she was the only living Number Three at the time, this action also ends her line.

Better Call Saul: Chuck, in the Season 3 finale, lights his house on fire while still inside.

"Black Mirror: The National Anthem" has an odd one. After kidnapping a member of the royal family, getting the UK in an uproar and blackmailing the Prime Minister to have sex with a pig on live TV he decides to kill himself. Seems it was all just a big stunt and presumably he killed himself to avoid capture although he might have got away with it... his suicide and motive is never properly explained.

An alternate explanation of why the artist in the above episode killed himself is that he never expected his plan to work - the idea that he could blackmail the PM into having sex with a pig was absurd. When the artist's plan actually succeeded, he was so horrified that he decided this was not a world that he wanted to live in, and killed himself.

The series 2 episode "Black Mirror: White Bear" opens up on a failed attempt on this, presumably she attempted to take her own life after the mysterious broadcast made everybody turn nuts. Well actually she didn't attempt to commit suicide, that was a set up. Her boyfriend did though and she really does wish for death by the end of the episode.

A favorite tactic of the First Evil is to use its shapeshifting powers to play mind games to trick heroes into destroying themselves. It actually talked potential Slayer Chloe into hanging herself in "Get It Done", and only was only stopped from successfully pulling it off with Angel through possibly divine intervention.

Spike also tried to kill himself after he got chipped, though it seems to be played for laughs from the way he delivers his line in the scene.

Played for Laughs again with Spike in Season 9 after Faith and Giles' spinster aunts knock Spike back, Faith wants a shag but Daniel Craig, not him, and he's called boring. He contemplates a stake because it's quick and sunlight because 'going out in flames' seems like an apt metaphor.

In the comic, Merrick kills himself before Lothos can turn him and force him into giving out Buffy's location.

In Caprica this was the apparent fate of Amanda Greystone at the first mid-season Cliffhanger. That same episode, Zoey Greystone/U-87 also embraced this trope, given that it involved a fiery car crash. Also that same episode, Tamara Adama shot herself, though she knew she wouldn't die from it.

In the Charmed episode "Murphy's Luck", a darklighter tries to drive a future whitelighter to suicide, since the only way to keep a person from becoming a whitelighter is to have them take their own life. Then he turns his powers on one of the main characters...

Later on, Cole wanted to kill himself and had tried many times but can't because he's too powerful, leading to a great line:

Cole (conjuring a guillotine): I can't wait to see how I survive this.

On The Colbert Report, Stephen illustrated the 'mixed messages' within a Presidential speech by playing a series of clips, then cutting back to the desk in between. Good news - "Yaaay!" Bad news - "Boooo." Good news - sucks on cigar. Bad news - sucks on gun barrel. (Luckily, the next clip was good enough to dissuade him from going through with it.) This upset a few fans...

There have been occasions in Cold Case where the cause of death has been this instead of murder. "Daniela" and "Two Weddings" are among the more prominent examples.

In "Fly Away" and "Best Friends", a mother and her young daughter and two interracial lesbian lovers respectively attempt to perform a Together in Death version of this. In both cases, only one dies, while the other lives with the guilt of sending their child/girlfriend to their deaths.

In "Schadenfreude", it's not the victim who attempts to do this, but rather her husband due to the stress of losing his business and guilt for having an affair behind his wife's back. She manages to talk him down and the two end up reconciling with each other. Unfortunately, she is soon killed by her friend whom she had planned to commit insurance fraud with using the gun her husband planned to kill himself with, resulting in the husband being put away for the murder for 23 years.

In the CSI episode "Unleashed", a pregnant teenage high school student named Maria Diorio (played by Brooke Anne Smith) committed suicide by hanging herself with her lover's belt after various traumatic factors, such as her father's death, her pregnancy, her lover's refusal to help her at her time of need, and especially the fact that an Alpha Bitch and her friends, out of resentment that her lover, the homecoming king, dumped her for Maria, decided to get back at her by making obscene posts en masse, create a website where they planted Maria's face onto a Donkey with a caption stating "I'm a stupid bitch!", as well as a viral video that allegedly had her saying in cheerleading cheers that she was a whore, getting over 1,000,000 hits.

Memory flashbacks reveal that Six tried to kill himself after learning that he had been tricked into aiding a mass murder. However, his gun was empty from executing his comrades, and clicked empty when he pulled the trigger.

The android Anya kills herself by electrocution in anxiety over the fact that she's broadcasting her location with a subspace transponder, endangering her fellow rogue androids.

On Dead Like Me, the main characters take and guide the souls of people dying from "external influences", including suicides. One notable subversion, however, comes when Daisy's target seems to be on the verge of suicide: Unfunny, unattractive and leaving a speed-dating session withnonames, he is standing on a roofs' ledge and looking down. As Daisy approaches him for the Reap, the camera pans down to reveal that he is already dead, with his body lying on the distant pavement. His soul comments that he slipped.

In Degrassi High Claude Tanner commits suicide because Caitlin doesn't love him. This lead to either episodes 25 and 26 (Showtime part 1 and 2) or just episode 26 being cut.

In Degrassi episode "Bitter Sweet Symphony", Campbell Saunders commits suicide following Zig calling him a psycho and telling him to get out of Maya's life forever. In fact, Cam's character was planned to commit suicide since he was conceived by the writers. Nearly all episodes and stories revolving around Cam were ultimately to lead to and foreshadow his death.

Death in Paradise: The episode "Stumped in Murder" sees a man found dead in the middle of a cricket pitch; it is initially presented as murder based on the evidence, but the subsequent investigation reveals that the victim had actually committed suicide because a 'friend' had been blackmailing him for some time by faking evidence that the victim was responsible for the car crash that left his son paralysed from the waist down, when in reality it was just basic mechanical failure.

In "The Sun Makers", Leela spots the first person they see on Pluto — going to throw himself off a building.

A Dalek chose to blow itself up rather than become tainted with human DNA. The only time the word "EXTERMINATE" could ever be turned into a sad moment.

In "Voyage of the Damned", one woman makes a not-entirely-necessary Heroic Sacrifice shortly after her husband dies in front of her, and even more shortly after the Doctor promised to save her and she responded "What for? What am I going to do without him?" It's not quite the same as jumping in front of a truck, but, well, there are ways of dealing with Mecha-Mooks that don't involve throwing a rope around one and jumping into a reactor with it.

It's heavily implied in "Turn Left" that the Doctor simply let himself drown with the Racnoss when Donna wasn't there.

And then there's Adelaide Brooke in "The Waters of Mars", who committed suicide because her death was a fixed point in time necessary to ensure the spacefaring future of the human race.

Amy in "Amy's Choice", after Rory dies in the dream world. Although Amy, the Doctor, and Rory are given a choice between two worlds and must figure out which is real, Amy chose Leadworth as the false world while having no way of knowing because either way she’d be with Rory, saying if this was reality, she didn't want it (the only way to leave the false world is to die. Die in the false world, wake up in reality; ask what happens if you die in reality.note You die, stupid. That's why it's called "reality".) She basically smashes her car into a wall at maximum speed to be with Rory.

Rory in "The Angels Take Manhattan". He'd rather kill himself rather then have to age to death in the Angel's farm without Amy. Plus it helps that it creates an Angel destroying paradox.

The Half-Face Man in "Deep Breath". Although it could be seen as an Ambiguous Situation, as the Twelfth Doctor tries to drive the droid to suicide while they're both flying over London on the droid's ship, the Half-Face Man claims that suicide is against his basic programing, and the Doctor claims that murder was against his, but one of them was lying. The scene cuts and, when we get back to it, the droid has fallen off the ship and is impaled on the spire of Big Ben, leaving the viewer to think whether or not the droid jumped by himself.

"Extremis": Anyone who reads The Veritas is driven to kill themselves due to the truths revealed in the book. The world they're living in is actually a computer simulation run by an alien race preparing to invade the Earth, and every person is just a program running in the simulation. As proof, Veritas invites the reader to think of a sequence of random numbers. As computers are bad at random number generation, everyone will get the same numbers every time. Death is the only escape from the simulation.

The suicides double as a Heroic Sacrifice, as anyone who kills themselves denies the aliens the ability to collect data from them to harm their real world counterparts.

The simulation was a little too perfect, however. The simulated Doctor was programmed to be clever enough that he knew to secretly record the aliens' plans on his sonic sunglasses and send the recording in an email to the real world Doctor, warning him about the impending invasion.

In "Mistress - New - Mistress", three women, West's girls, appear on top of a statue and perform a magical ritual to kill themselves in a manner similar to a hanging. It turns out the magic they used came from the Beast Forever.

At the beginning of "Science and Magic", Tip contemplates jumping off a bridge after accidentally killing Jack in the previous episode.

On an episode of Emergency! Gage and DeSoto are called by a woman whose roommate has taken a bottle of barbiturates. When they arrive, the woman is conscious, and refuses treatment. The roommates begs them to do something, but they tell her as long as the woman is conscious and refusing treatment, they can't intervene. Once she passes out, they can try to revive her, but by then, it may be too late. While the woman is still conscious, she explains to them why she's been driven to suicide by all the horrible things in her life, none of which are very bad, just to make the point to the audience that suicide is a bad choice. Gage and DeSoto had their equipment ready, in the woman's room, watching her become less and less alert until she passes out on her bed. Then they give her oxygen and drugs to counteract the barbiturates, and rush her to the hospital, but she dies anyway. There's a not-so-subtle PSA regarding the right of a conscious person to refuse treatment. It was a concern a lot of people had with the new profession of paramedic. There was also a sub-textual PSA that went something like "Don't say 'No' to a paramedic!"

Enemy at the Door, set in German-occupied territory during World War II, had multiple characters driven to end it all.

The German pilot in "Steel Hand From the Sea", who has come to doubt both the usefulness of his past actions and Germany's chances against the British air force. Kluge suggests that he has become a Death Seeker and recommends that, if so, he should kill himself properly because seeking death by British airman would be unfair on the rest of the crew of his plane. Near the end of the episode he is shown contemplating Kluge's advice, but events intervene before he comes to a decision whether to take the plunge.

In "V for Victory", an islander is presented with a choice: he will be sent to a labor camp on the mainland unless he gives up a friend who has been leaving subversive messages around town (which will get the friend the death penalty). These, the Germans tell him, are his only two options. Rather than accept either, he kills himself.

At the end of "Call of the Dead", Clare Martel attempts Suicide by Sea, haunted by the actions she has had to take to survive. She lives, but goes off to convalesce in a convent and disappears from the series.

On ER, Gant's death is seen as this, though it's never established for certain whether he accidentally fell or deliberately jumped onto the tracks, but Carter seems to feel that the latter is the case, as Gant was depressed and being subjected to relentless criticism from his superior.

Everwood: Reid, Ephram and Bright's room-mate from season 4 eats pills and is found unconscious when he flunks out of medical school. He couldn't deal with the amount of work and cheated on a test, got caught and was expelled. His friends all feel guilty for not realizing that Reid was depressed. Upon recovery, Reid pretends everything is fine which understandably upsets them and Amy calls him on it.

The Family: Hank attempted suicide in prison, but couldn't go through with it.

Played for Laughs in the Series Finale where Joey tries to jump off Monica's balcony after saying goodbye to Rachel who is moving to Paris for a new job.

On Fringe, a man that Walter describes as a "reverse-empath" can project his self-loathing and suicidal thoughts onto other people, making them commit suicide. It may be a Take That! to The Happening.

Dr. Sanjay Patel shoots himself in the episode "The Cure".

Game of Thrones: Young King Tommen Baratheon spends most of his reign a powerless Puppet King controlled by everyone around him. It all comes to a head when he sees The High Sept utterly destroyed in wildfire, which also kills his wife, his entire royal court, and The High Sparrow, all victims of his mother Cersei's machinations. Dumbfounded, he stares at the ruin for several moments. He then takes off his crown and sets it aside for anyone stupid enough to want it for themselves, then climbs into the window frame and quietly dives to his death.

Happened on Gilligan's Island, of all places. When a radio news report said that the authorities were now holding the captain of The Minnow responsible for its disappearance, the Skipper had a practical nervous breakdown. (And Gilligan could hardly blame him; as he told the other castaways, it would ruin his career even if they were rescued.) Gilligan had to stop him from trying to hang himself and jump off a cliff, at which point the Professor suggested reenacting the voyage to prove it wasn't his fault. They did, but while it did indeed seem to exonerate the Skipper, it suggested that a mistake Gilligan had made had caused the wreck. All of a sudden, he was the one whom the Skipper had to stop from killing himself. The crisis was ended by a second news report claiming that a second look by those in charge had found that the local weather report that day had been inaccurate, which exonerated both members of the crew.

On Glee, Dave Karofsky tries to kill himself after being outed at his new school, then viciously bullied there and on Facebook.

Mr Freeze's dying wife Nora kills herself by switching the cartridges on his gun. When he shot the gun intending to preserve her body until she can be cured he inadvertently killed his wife as the cartridge included the faulty formula which caused the bodies to melt.

Mr. Freeze decides to kill himself after Nora's death. He fails due to his body having grown resistant of the cold.

An episode of the Hawaii Five-0 remake featured a suicide by jumping in front of a truck.

It also turned up on the original show, such as in "To Kill Or Be Killed" (a soldier who falls to his death from a hotel balcony jumped because he couldn't face returning to Vietnam), "I'll Kill 'Em Again" (the murderer who's been playing with McGarrett jumps out of a window rather than go to jail), and "Death With Father" (which ends with a criminal blowing up himself and his cop father).

Horatio himself feels suicidal after he joined the Navy and is pursued by a particularly nasty bully. As a Death Seeker, he decides to challenge him to a Duel to the Death. Either outcomes are good — kills the bully or be killed. Both will free him.

After a couple of years in a Spanish prison, five failed escape attempts, and a month in an oubliette, Archie Kennedy is pushed over the brink by Horatio's arrival (likely because it brought back memories of his old tormentor Simpson, who he didn't know was dead — after all, immediately after Horatio's arrival Archie started having seizures again, which had only happened around Simpson before). He tries to starve himself to death and Horatio notices just in time to save him.

While Dr. House is a self-destructive bastard with a death wish, the only time he's ever properly tried this is in "Merry Little Christmas", when the Tritter deal got too much for him to handle and he ended up overdosing on a dead patient's meds. He also once electrocuted himself specifically in order to undergo a near-death experience.

In "Simple Explanation" ,Dr. Kutner kills himself. And nobody has any idea why. In Real Life, however, everybodyknows why. Kal Penn got a job with the Obama Administration, and you can't be a TV regular and work for the White House at the same time.

It's been strongly hinted throughout the series that Taub tried to kill himself in medical school because of the pressure.

The patients of the week in "Unwritten" and "Painless" attempted to take their own lives in their respective episodes' opening scenes.

Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother provides a rare version of this trope played for laughs, attempting to jump off Robin's balcony when he hears that Brover (his new dog/wingman) has to be returned to its true owner.

Inspector George Gently: The Victim of the Week in "Breathe in the Air" is a doctor who was driven to suicide as a result of harassment from a corporation when she attempted to expose their corrupt practices that were given their workers cancer.

In the Spanish series El internado, Fernando tries to kill himself, so that Amelia doesn't have to work for Camilo and Noiret to keep him alive anymore. He succeeds on his second attempt, driving a car off a cliff.

Elsa tries to overdose on pills after she miscarries and Hector divorces her.

In the Heat of the Night had one where a young beauty pageant contestant takes sleeping pills when her secret past of drug use and pornography comes back to haunt her. Another episode had one where a respected teacher was falsely accused of sexual abuse by a student who was upset about being disciplined by said teacher over a classroom prank. He was cleared but was found dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning when Tibbs comes to tell him the news.

On Justified, Mags Bennett poisons herself at the end of Season 2 because two of her three sons are dead, and she hates her only remaining son.

On Kamen Rider Blade, Hajime is forced to become his Joker self and begin The End of the World as We Know It. After trying several times to resist it, he ultimately finds that it's impossible, so he tries to kill himself with his own weapon to stop it. It fails, because as an Undead, he's immortal. Later, he attempts to force Kenzaki to seal him, an act which could be considered simular to suicide, but Kenzaki finds another way. Both of these also count as attemptingHeroic Sacrifice, as he was trying to save the world in the process.

Many people throughout the Law & Order franchise (especially Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), but notably in the Law & Order episode that introduces Det. Lupo: His brother is one of a number of people who were helped to commit suicide, and he's looking for their "helper". That person's father, a Dr. Kavorkian expy, takes responsibility before dying of his own poison.

In the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Bully", a corporate boss shoots herself after video footage of her abusing a timid business partner is leaked and her business is ruined. She castigates her late partner, the media, her employees and police at a press conference before killing herself, saying it was their fault. It's possibly a reference to the public suicide of former Pennsylvania treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, who shot himself during a press conference (his behavior was more contrite however). This inspired the song "Hey Man Last Shot" by Filter.

Lost is a fairly suicide-heavy show. In addition to Sawyer's father's murder-suicide (in flashbacks), we've seen Locke, Jack, and Michael on the verge of suicide. In Jack and Locke's cases, they were interrupted before actually making the attempt. Michael tried at least three times unsuccessfully. Richard has also tried, but his immortality also extends to a inability to kill himself.

In the first season, Adam Whitman, Don Draper's half-brother, hangs himself in his hotel room after Don pays him to leave town and never contact him again. He had been hoping to find Don for years, and was horrified to be callously turned away.

The Magicians: All of the Travelers kill themselves (except Penny) due to the Beast's threats. Kady later attempts suicide when she fails to save Penny. Julie revives her though, and it turns out that Penny isn't dead.

Played for Laughs during the Pirate episode of Married... with Children, where several ship crew members do this for having to endure the (supposedly long) singing from the dreadful pirate, Ruvio the Cruel. Apparently ship wayfarers consider musical-version performances to be torture...

In the Masters of Horror episode "Imprint", the disfigured prostitute claims first that this was what happened to Komomo, who hanged herself when Christopher failed to return. After Christopher says he doesn't believe her, she admits that she actually killed Komomo (and was also the one that committed the robbery and falsely accused Komomo in the first place).

In "Tundra", Howard of The Mighty Boosh thought his friend Vince was dead and he couldn't face the prospect of life without him, so he wandered out into the snow in hopes of freezing or starving to death. Despite being a comedy, it wasn't played for laughs, but Mood Whiplash was provided by showing scenes of Vince alive and happily playing with a polar bear to keep the scenario from getting too sad.

Misfits: Jess relates that she attempted suicide after her boyfriend left her. Abbie does so too by overdosing with pills when Laura rejects her, while Jess stops it. When drained by the life force vampire in 5.6, people completely lose the will to live, attempting suicide, with one succeeding.

Subverted in the pilot episode when a patient was brought and everybody assumed it was an attempted suicide by crushing a car. However, she's soon diagnosed as having a stroke and that it was an accident.

One patient is brought badly hurt, and everybody assumes he was a jumper because he was found under the window. The team are reluctant to treat him, but they do nevertheless. He might end up an organ donor but they actually need organs for him. The team's attitude changes when they find that he in fact did not try to commit a suicide, but was pushed. Dr. Hooten calls them on it later and is extremely harsh on them, because suicidal people are considered ill, not losers unwilling to live. Well-played, Dr. Hooten.Jerkass Has a Point in this series for a reason, and he was not a jerkass at this matter at all.

Murder in the First: When Erich Blunt is finally nailed at the end of the first season, he hangs himself in his jail cell rather than accept life imprisonment. His maternal grandfather had done the same thing, dying of cancer and facing arrest himself, which Blunt praised previously.

On Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 819, "Invasion of the Neptune Men", a giant nude statue of Bobo is more than Pearl and Observer can take, so much so that they tussle over who gets the noose — until they realize that they have to fix the timestream to save Chicken in a Biskit.

NCIS. One of Gibbs' flashbacks in the episode "Hiatus" shows him sitting on the beach where he shared happy times with his wife and daughter with a gun in his hand, clearly contemplating blowing his head off following their tragic deaths.

Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves: Bengt after getting his AIDS diagnosis. Paul in a moment of Gallows Humor bitches about the unkindness of not letting the disease waste him away but leaving a heavy body for his equally sick and weak friends to carry when they served as pall-bearers at the funeral.

The Path: Eddie's brother hanged himself in the past, which led to him finding and joining Meyerism.

In the Penny Dreadful "Above the Vaulted Door", Gladys Murray is driven insane by the witches. She eventually hallucinates her children rising from their graves, leading her to kill herself.

Please Like Me: the protagonist's depressed mother tries to commit suicide in the first episode and repeats her attempt - yet again unsuccessfully - in the first series finale.

In Powers Krispin apparently kills himself at the end of season 2's first episode.

An episode of The Pretender involved Jarod investigating the suicide of a military recruit who was given an experimental drug that brought about an intense feeling of despair. As usual, Jarod gave the man responsible a taste of his own medicine (literally in this case), but also as usual, stopped short of killing him - he gave him a reduced dose that was enough to make him cry like a bitch for a few hours, but not enough to make him take his own life.

Preacher (2016): Subverted; Donny's aforementioned Disability Immunity is set up as if he's realizing the futility of the assault on the church and deciding to end it all in an oddly convoluted way. Tracy also attempted suicide, followed by Eugene, but both survived, leaving her in a coma and him disfigured.

Quantico: Eric kills himself in guilt after thinking his secret was discovered: having the Malawi girl he got pregnant get an illegal abortion, which she died undergoing. It was not even true — Caleb didn't know about it.

The Red Dwarf episode "Back to Reality" featured the Despair Squid, a genetically-engineered predator which used hallucinogenic ink to induce suicidal depression in its victims, including fish. Even the entirely electronic Rimmer and Kryten were affected.

Happens to more or less half the cast of Rome, in some cases because a character is based on a historical figure who took their own life. Some of the more notable ones include: The death of Niobe, who throws herself off a balcony so that Vorenus won't have to take her life in season one, the fate of both Antony and Cleopatra in the series finale, Brutus walking in among the enemy soldiers in a suicide-by-making-them-kill-me fashion in mid-season two, followed by Servilia and her slave in the next episode.

Ted, the hospital's lawyer, who is eternally depressed and contemplating suicide. Typically he stays on the roof of the building, looking down, waiting to gain enough courage to take the final step, often while Dr. Kelso watches in sadistic amusement. Something always happens that prevents him from jumping, to Kelso's chagrin... except one time when he's about to turn back, but accidentally falls down (Dr. Kelso came up onto the roof blasting an air horn, the surprise causing him to fall). He survives as he lands on a large pile of garbage bags the Almighty Janitor had put there (the whereabouts of which had been part of another plot). He then gives Ted advice on a location to 'jump' from that will be successful.

Elliot confesses that she once tried to drown herself, although this wasn't played for laughs. It was actually mostly ignored after that episode, as all the characters became generic sitcom characters.

Played for laughs once. Elliot admitted that she didn't try to stick her head in an oven. When her head gets really hot, she pisses herself and she didn't want to be found in a puddle of her own urine.

Dr. Cox unknowingly transplants rabies-infected organs into 3 patients, killing them and driving him to nearly drink himself to death.

Sense8: Riley. In the past, she apparently attempted suicide after the deaths of her husband and newborn daughter, but survived.

Even Sesame Street had this in an animated short called "King Minus". If he touches anything at all, it is immediately annihilated. This includes the Damsel in Distress he meant to save. He can't live with himself after that.

Oliver Queen tries to blow himself up with a death trap someone was already trying to murder him with. He gets better, sort of...

Subverted in Sons of Anarchy when the incarcerated Otto - who had nothing going for him - slashed his wrists. It was later revealed that not only did he not succeed, but he never meant to - it was a gambit to get into the infirmary in order to kill the man who tried to kill Jackson.

Juice tried to kill himself and it really looked as if he succeeded until the next episode revealed otherwise. He tries again later, this time with a handful of pills, but he gets saved by Gemma and Nero.

In one episode of Southland, a teenage boy tries to commit suicide after his classmates torment him for being gay. Cooper and Tang barely manage to save him. At the end of the episode, he talks a hospital orderly into undoing his restraints, then jumps off the roof.

Star Fleet: In the twelfth episode Captain Carter, after being freed from Imperial Alliance control, cannot live with the evils deeds that he was forced to do against his allies. He is driven to Suicide by Cop, by firing at Shiro, giving him no choice but to shoot back at his mentor. He dies in Shiro's arms.

Another example in the twenty-second episode, when Captain Orion is mortally wounded by a falling beam, and is determined to die a warriors death. He steals a drone craft and goes on a suicide mission against X-Bomber. After a lengthy attack on X-Bomber, Orion's drone craft is shot down. Orion purposely drives the drone craft into X-Bombers side, proclaiming "Long Live the Imperial Alliance!". He fails to destroy the ship outright, but does significantly damage it.

The Stargate SG-1 episode "The Light" deals with a Goa'uld discovery that's described as being similar to an opium den. Upon discovering it, the people who witnessed the titular light go into "withdrawal" when they return home, and attempt suicide. (A one-off character kills himself with the kawoosh and Daniel unsuccessfully tries to jump off his balcony.) The situation was resolved, though.

An episode of Stargate Atlantis had a society where people were required to commit suicide at the age of twenty-four; this turned out to be a form of population control designed by the Ancients to keep the population contained within the field of the protective shield that hid them from the Wraith.

A later episode actually had Sheppard drive another man to suicide, specifically "suicide by being fed on by starving Wraith", since he was responsible for McKay's sister being infected with deadly nanites. The Wraith was the only one competent enough to deactivate them in time, but was too malnourished to do the job.

In Stargate Universe, Spencer is driven to suicide through the combination of withdrawal from sleeping pills and the stress of being stranded on Destiny.

Klingons were known to engage in ritual suicide if disability forced them to be a burden on their families. When Worf was badly injured in an accident, he asked Commander Riker to serve the role. Riker heatedly refuses, castigates Worf for choosing not to fight to survive like so many of their comrades did, and points out that Worf's son Alexander is old enough to perform the ritual instead. Specifically, Klingons can't kill themselves as it's dishonorable, so asking a family member to do it is a way around this. In a Deep Space Nine episode Worf's brother Kurn asked him to perform this duty after his family had been stripped of their titles and honor by Chancellor Gowron. When Worf doesn't go through with it, and various efforts by Kurn to die in the line of duty fail, Worf comes across his brother drunk with a disrupter in his hand, trying to work up the courage to shoot himself in the head, which would mean eternity in Klingon hell, "but at least I would be with other Klingons."

One planet had every member of its society committing suicide when they reached the age of sixty.

Suicide as a result of Psychological Interferrence was the subject of "Eye Of The Beholder", where empathic impressions from a past suicide caused several empathic individuals in the Enterprise crew to experience hallucinations forcing them to attempt the same thing (some of them succeeded, others didn't).

One episode ("Tin Man") had a lonely spacefaring creature trying to kill itself by sticking around a star about to go nova. Only to be subverted by finding companionship from a telepath, so that Tin Man would no longer be alone and the telepath only heard Tin Man's singular voice.

In one episode, even Data mentioned that during his early formative phases, he found the process of becoming sentient so difficult that he considered deactivating himself, an act other crew members equated to suicide.

In the Deep Space Nine episode "Hard Time", O'Brien gets implanted memories of spending a 20 year prison sentence as part of punishment for a crime. In these fake memories he killed his cell mate over some food (that the cell mate was going to share with O'Brien anyway). O'Brien has such a hard time dealing with his actions, even though they weren't real, that he nearly commits suicide and Bashir has to talk him out of it.

Dr. Julian Bashir: The Argrathi did everything they could to strip you of your humanity. And in the end, for one brief moment, they succeeded. But you can't let that brief moment define your entire life. If you do, if you pull that trigger, then the Argrathi will have won - they will have destroyed a good man. You cannot let that happen, my friend.

As early as Star Trek: The Original Series has this happened. In "The Doomsday Machine", Commodore Decker is driven mad with guilt after watching as the titular weapon obliterates a planet he evacuated his crew to, killing them all. After his attempt to use the Enterprise to destroy the machine is stopped by Kirk, Decker takes control of a shuttlecraft and rams it down the machine's throat, though it doesn't kill it.

In the episode "Operation: Annihilate!", an unarmed Denevan pilot, driven mad by pain caused by the parasite he's infected by, flies his ship into the sun.

While Supernatural's Dean selling his soul so his brother can live again in "All Hell Breaks Loose" might look like a Heroic Sacrifice at first glance, it's really, really not. He still thinks he should have died at the beginning of the season, he has a massive guilty conscience about failing to protect his brother, you only have to watch the rest of the season to know that he hasn't been in the best of places for a good, long time and Azazel even says he has a pathetic, self-loathing desire to sacrifice himself for his family. In "Dream a Little Dream of Me", he finally seems to get over his suicidal nature and realises he doesn't want to go to hell. Too bad he's doomed anyway. That's not the only time he's been driven to try (it just succeeded that time). There's "Faith" where he accepts his impending death and lets the reaper try and take him. There's "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" where he takes his rage out on what looks like himself and shoots the doppelganger dead. There's "Croatoan" where Sam might turn violent due to infection and instead of running away, he locks himself in there with him, and then there's "What Is And What Should Never Be" where his perfect girlfriend definitely looks like the Reaper in "My Time Of Dying", his greatest wish is to get some rest (it's unclear whether he just wants a bit of peace or, um, forever rest) and he needs to kill himself to get out of his dreamworld but is perfectly fine with the other option which is dying for real. Oh, Dean!

In the season 5 finale, Dean would rather die with his brother than not be there for him when Lucifer has taken over Sam's body and all hope of stopping him seems gone. He was lost enough throughout the season that he nearly said "yes" to let Michael possess him so Michael could kill Lucifer even though that would raze the world.

Sam was suicidal throughout season five as well, first preferring death to possession, then playing out a Self-Sacrifice Scheme to lock Lucifer back up by saying "yes" to let Lucifer possess him and walking into the Cage. If Sam succeeded, he'd be trapped with a vengeful Lucifer to be tortured for eternity by him. The whole demon blood thing the season before only came about because Dean died and Sam thought he had to use enough blood-fueled power to kill himself killing Lilith to prevent the Apocalypse. This is well after he tried to get Dean to kill him so he wouldn't become a monster.

For various reasons, Dean's behavior in most of Season 7 was borderline suicidal.

Castiel, filled with regret over his decisions regarding Crowley and the souls in Purgatory, admits to Dean in season 8 that he can't go back to Heaven, because if he sees what his actions have done to it, he may "kill himself".

Another episode featured a monster that drove people to suicide by mimicking their dead loved ones and telling them to kill themselves so they can be together again.

The episode "Wishing Well" played this for laughs with a teddy brought to life by a little girl's wish that attempts to blow his own head off with a shotgun. He fails.

Castiel becomes so depressed in season 11 that he offers himself as Lucifer's vessel, which is tantamount to suicide. He was also desperate enough to hope it would solve the current crisis, but he appears to grow even more depressed as the possession goes on, to the point where when Sam and Dean try to make contact with him via Crowley, he shows no real interest in kicking Lucifer out, and seems to feel that he might as well stay where he is and at least be useful one last time.

And on later on in Season 11, when Dean believes that Sam is dead, he outright commits suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills in order to make a deal with a Reaper (Sam lives in exchange for Dean). Thankfully, he learned that Sam wasn't actually dead and managed to return to his body, but this is the first time on the show a major character was shown killing themselves by their own hand.

In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles John, Derek, Riley, and Cameron all appear to contemplate or attempt suicide. Cameron, on the other hand, prevents John from stopping a teenage girl from killing herself, since it would draw attention to him and get their pursuers on their tail.

In the Terriers episode "Change Partners" a masochistic banker who forces his wife to indulge his cuckolding fantasies by having affairs is Driven to Suicide when he realizes that his actions are hurting her. His suicide note reads "I only meant to hurt myself."

In The Tudors, the series version of Cardinal Wolsey perfectly illustrates this trope. Historically, he's said to have died of illness and exhaustion while being detained (and that is already quite ugly), but since he was a) stripped of all titles, offices and incomes, b) kicked out of the royal council, c) sent to jail, d) separated from his beloved Joan and their two children (Yeah, children. So what ? Priests must not marry. That's all), and e) waiting to be tried for treason, the issue of said trial quite painfully obvious, the suicide option seems sadly logical. Maybe this is a case of Truth in Television, we'll never know.

In Upstairs Downstairs there's James Bellamy, Emily the Maid, and, in the reboot, Lady Persephone.

In The Vampire Diaries it happens a bit too often with the Salvatore brothers, but always averted. First both of them wanted to die instead of drinking human blood and becoming vampires. Stefan changed his mind and conned Damon into following suit. Then when Stefan "fell off the wagon" and started drinking human blood again... well, that didn't work either.

And in the first season finale Jeremy. Sort of.

According to the Season 4 premiere, Elena's actions in the S3 finale were a result of this.

"Clash of the Tritons": Logan's mother having taken all she can from her cheating husband, abandons her car on a bridge and jumps to her death - apparently. Loganrefuses to believe it, and they Never Found the Body.

A season and a half later, the Big BadCassidy Casablancas leaps to his death after having his crimes and Freudian Excuse (sexual abuse which he was trying desperately to keep secret) made public.

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